Datasheet ONTAP 9 Data Management Software Simplify your transition to the modern data center

Key Benefits The Challenge Simplify Deployment and Management Businesses today need to address competitive pressures by evolving into digital • Deploy new workloads in under 10 enterprises that speed innovation and enable better business decisions. They must minutes take a more modern approach to their data storage while integrating into their existing • Unify data management across flash, environment. Businesses must also manage data wherever it resides—on the premises disk, and cloud and in the cloud—while reducing costs and operating with existing IT staff. • Gain a global view of storage with a single management console The Solution Simplify your transition to a modern data center with NetApp® ONTAP® 9, the next Flexibly Support Changing Business generation of the industry’s leading enterprise data management software. It combines Needs new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful data management capabilities and • Deploy on engineered systems, storage efficiencies. converged infrastructure, software- defined storage, and cloud With ONTAP 9, you can build a hybrid cloud that is the foundation of a Data Fabric • Support current and modern software that spans flash, disk, and cloud. Seamlessly manage your data as it flows to wherever platforms you need it most to make the best possible decisions for your organization. ONTAP 9 • Manage SAN and NAS workloads on a addresses the challenges that face your digital enterprise by: unified storage architecture • Simplifying deployment and data management Power Your Enterprise Applications • Flexibly supporting your changing business needs • Deliver rich data services with high • Powering your enterprise applications performance and consistent low latency You can simplify your storage environment with proven operational efficiency. Deploy • Reduce storage costs with the most and configure new storage systems for enterprise workloads—Oracle, SAP, Microsoft comprehensive data reduction SQL Server, VDI, and VMware—in under 10 minutes. Automate important processes to technologies increase productivity. Secure your data with built-in encryption. Gain a global view of • Eliminate planned and unplanned your storage with a single management console. Perform updates during regular work downtime for continuous business hours without disrupting applications or users. availability • Scale capacity and performance With ONTAP 9, flexibly deploy on your choice of architectures—engineered systems, without disruption software-defined storage (SDS), and the cloud—while unifying data management across all of them. You can modernize your infrastructure with new software stacks such as Dockers and OpenStack. Add capacity as you grow across both SAN and NAS environments. Plus, combine all-flash and hybrid flash storage nodes into a larger storage cluster and connect them to the cloud, enabling you to nondisruptively move and access your data from the node that delivers the best combination of performance, capacity, and cost efficiency. Accelerate your enterprise applications with flash while not Flexibly Support Your Changing Business Needs compromising on the rich data services that you need. You ONTAP 9 provides the flexibility you need to design and deploy can start small and grow with your business by scaling your your storage environment across the widest range of architectures, storage environment, leveraging high-capacity SSDs or hard disk so you can match the approach that’s best for your evolving drives (HDDs) and growing up to 24 nodes in a cluster. Reduce business needs: your overall storage costs by leveraging leading ONTAP data • NetApp engineered systems: All Flash FAS (AFF) systems reduction technologies to minimize your storage footprint and and hybrid disk FAS systems maximize your effective capacity. Plus, you are able to service • Converged infrastructure: FlexPod® your infrastructure without disrupting access to user data and • On commodity servers as SDS: ONTAP Select applications, even during regular business hours. With ONTAP • In front of third-party arrays: FlexArray® 9, support your business operations with continuous availability • Next to the cloud: NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for Cloud and leading data protection. • In the cloud: ONTAP Cloud

Simplify Deployment and Management You can seamlessly move your data between each to get your Whether adding new workloads or managing your existing data onto the optimal environment for performance, capacity, environment, it is important to simplify your processes to and cost efficiency. Plus, you have the flexibility to consolidate maximize the efficiency of your staff. ONTAP gives you a common both NAS and SAN workloads onto any ONTAP environment set of features across deployment architectures, which simplifies while delivering consistent data services. complex tasks so your IT staff can be more productive and focus on addressing business priorities. When your data doubles in size, Power Your Enterprise Applications it no longer means that you have twice as much work to manage. To support your critical applications, you need a storage environ- ment that cost-effectively delivers high performance and availability Deploy in less than 10 minutes that can scale with business growth and protect your valuable data. New fast provisioning workflows enable you to deploy new ONTAP 9 delivers on all these requirements with highly efficient storage systems for key workloads—Oracle, SAP-HANA, SQL flash performance for scalable, nondisruptive operations. Server, VDI, and VMware—in under 10 minutes from power on to serving data. Years of NetApp experience and best practices Optimized for flash are integrated into the system manager wizard and factory ONTAP 9 delivers the horsepower that critical applications configurations, enabling you to quickly set up your new require without compromising on rich data services. AFF configuration by answering a few questions. And as you deploy systems running ONTAP 9 are optimized specifically for flash, new workloads, ONTAP 9 gives you the visibility to know which providing up to 60% more performance compared to the same node has the most performance capacity available for optimally workloads running on recent ONTAP 8 releases, while still deploying the new workload. delivering consistent submillisecond latency.

Unified data management ONTAP 9 also enables FAS hybrid storage systems to deliver Simplify operations by unifying data management across a flash-accelerated performance that is balanced with HDD hybrid cloud that can span flash, disk, and cloud running SAN economies. Hot data is automatically cached in flash to and NAS workloads. You can increase the efficiency of your staff accelerate application performance. and easily move your data between nodes to where it’s needed most. ONTAP is the foundation for a Data Fabric that gives you Nondisruptive operations freedom, choice, and control across your storage environment. ONTAP allows you to perform critical tasks without interrupting your business. You can dynamically assign, promote, and retire Simplified, powerful management capabilities storage resources without downtime over the lifecycle of an The NetApp OnCommand® software portfolio includes application. Data can be moved between controllers without management products ideally suited to manage virtualized application interruption. Plus, storage controllers and disk private and hybrid cloud environments. You can centrally shelves can be replaced without disruption. With ONTAP, you monitor capacity, availability, performance, and data protection. also can mix models and generations of hardware to extend the And take advantage of storage service analytics to make better life of existing investments. informed decisions about your storage. Integrated data protection Use our OnCommand management platform to automate your ONTAP provides integrated data protection (IDP) to safeguard storage processes. Plus, integrate the storage processes into your operations and keep them running smoothly. Technologies your data center orchestration platform for end-to-end service include near-instant backup and recovery with space-efficient delivery for your private and hybrid cloud services. Snapshot® and SnapVault® technology and synchronous and asynchronous replication with MetroCluster™ and SnapMirror®, which can meet your requirements for business continuity and disaster recovery. ONTAP 9 Common Data Management

Storage Arrays Converged Heterogeneous Software-Defined Near Cloud Cloud Storage (SDS)

AFF + FAS NetApp Private FlexPod FlexArray ONTAP Select Storage (NPS) ONTAP Cloud

Figure 1) Standardize data management across architectures with a rich set of enterprise data services.

To meet your stringent compliance and data retention policies, You can also rebalance capacity to improve service levels by NetApp SnapLock® software enables write once, read many redeploying workloads dynamically and avoiding hot spots. (WORM) protected data for your ONTAP environment. Maximize Investment Protection NetApp also provides superior integration with enterprise backup ONTAP gives you the flexibility to create an integrated, scalable vendors and leading applications. Plus, our IDP solutions include storage environment by clustering storage controllers from integrated and unified disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery different families—AFF and FAS—as well as from different in a single process for VMware and Microsoft virtualization. generations. Grow with the latest hardware and continue to use your older hardware. When it’s time to retire a storage system, Security you can simply upgrade the controllers and keep data in place With the NetApp volume encryption feature built into ONTAP, you on the existing disk shelves. Plus, you can get more value from can easily and efficiently protect your at-rest data by encrypting your existing investments in third-party arrays by virtualizing any volume and any AFF or FAS system. No special encrypting them with NetApp FlexArray virtualization and using the storage disks required. capacity in your ONTAP environment.

Superior storage efficiency Simple, Straightforward Transition to ONTAP 9 With ONTAP, you can reduce costs with one of the most No matter what your starting point, NetApp streamlines your comprehensive storage efficiency offerings in the industry. move to ONTAP 9: You get space-efficient NetApp Snapshot copies, thin provi- • Upgrade from ONTAP 8.3 with a simple update of your sioning, replication, and cloning technologies. Plus, inline data ONTAP software. No disruption. Zero downtime. compression, deduplication, and compaction work together to • Make a smooth transition from ONTAP 7-Mode with proven reduce your storage costs and maximize your effective capacity. tools and best practices, including 7-Mode Transition Tool (7MTT) and Copy Free Transition (CFT). Maximized shared storage investments • Use straightforward import processes from third-party ONTAP lets you save time and money by sharing the same storage to ONTAP 9. consolidated infrastructure for workloads or tenants that have different performance, capacity, and security requirements Consult our experts to plan and implement your transition and without fear that the activity in one tenant partition will affect gain the latest ONTAP advantages from day one. You can use another. With multitenancy, a storage cluster can be subdivided NetApp Services or NetApp Certified Services Partners, do it into secure partitions governed by rights and permissions. And yourself using our proven tools and processes, or combine these quality of service (QoS) workload management allows you to approaches. control the resources that each workload can consume, to better manage performance spikes and improve customer satisfaction. Make your move to ONTAP 9.

Stay ahead of business changes with seamless scalability Storage systems that run ONTAP can transparently scale SAN and NAS from a few terabytes up to 172PB. Scale up by adding About NetApp SSD and HDD capacity. Or scale out by adding additional storage Leading organizations worldwide count on NetApp for software, controllers to seamlessly expand your cluster up to 24 nodes as systems and services to manage and store their data. Customers your business needs grow. value our teamwork, expertise and passion for helping them succeed now and into the future. ONTAP also supports massive NAS containers that are easy to manage. www.netapp.com With FlexGroup, a single namespace can grow to 20PB and 400 billion files while maintaining consistent high performance and resiliency. Software/Features TABLE 1) ONTAP 9 OFFERS A ROBUST SET OF STANDARD AND OPTIONAL FEATURES. Function Benefits

Data compaction Packs more data into each storage block for greater Works with compression to reduce the amount of storage data reduction you need to purchase and operate

Data compression Provides transparent inline and postprocess data Reduces the amount of storage you need to purchase compression for data reduction and maintain

DataMotion™ Offers nondisruptive data mobility for volumes Granular data mobility allows you to move data and LUNs nondisruptively while your applications keep running

Deduplication Performs general-purpose deduplication for removal Reduces the amount of storage you need to purchase of redundant data and maintain

Flash Pool™ Creates a mixed-media storage pool by using SSDs Increases the performance and efficiency of HDD pools and HDDs with flash acceleration

FlexClone® Instantaneously creates file, LUN, and volume clones Saves you time in testing and development and increases without requiring additional storage your storage capacity

FlexGroup Enables a single namespace to scale up to 20PB Supports compute-intensive workloads and data and 400 billion files repositories that require a massive NAS container while maintaining consistent high performance and resiliency

FlexVol® Creates flexibly sized volumes across a large pool Enables storage systems to be used at maximum efficiency of disks and one or more RAID groups and reduces hardware investment

Headroom Provides visibility of performance capacity available Simplifies management and enables more effective for deploying new workloads on storage nodes provisioning of new workloads to the optimal node

Infinite Volumes Creates a volume that can scale up to 20PB with Provides a large container for content repositories; one file system a single cluster can contain multiple Infinite Volumes

MetroCluster Combines array-based clustering with synchronous Maintains business continuity for critical enterprise mirroring to deliver continuous availability and zero applications and workloads in the event of a data center data loss; up to 300km distance between nodes disaster

QoS Creates a performance limit for a storage workload Can prevent one workload or tenant from affecting the performance of another in multiworkload and multitenant environments

RAID DP® and RAID-TEC™ Provides a double-parity and triple-parity RAID 6 Protects your data without the performance impact of implementation that prevents data loss when two other RAID 6 implementations; reduces risks during long or three drives fail rebuilds of large-capacity HDDs

SnapCenter® and SnapManager® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Offers application-aware backup and disaster recovery; storage for databases and business applications automates error-free data restores

SnapDrive® Provides host-based data management of NetApp Lets you automate OS-consistent backup, restore, cloning, storage from Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and and other operations, taking full advantage of NetApp Linux servers capabilities

SnapLock Provides WORM file-level locking Supports regulatory compliance and organizational data retention requirements

SnapMirror Enables automatic, incremental asynchronous data Provides you with flexibility and efficiency when mirroring replication between systems for data distribution and disaster recovery

SnapRestore® Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs Instantaneously recovers files, databases, and complete and volumes from any Snapshot copy backup volumes from your backup

Snapshot Makes incremental data-in-place, point-in-time copies of Enables you to create frequent space-efficient backups a LUN or volume with minimal performance impact with no disruption to data traffic

SnapVault Exports space-efficient Snapshot copies, preserving Provides you with cost-effective, long-term backups of compression and deduplication savings, to another NetApp disk-based data system, providing an incremental backup solution

Volume encryption Provides data-at-rest encryption built into ONTAP Easily and efficiently protect your at-rest data by encrypting any volume and any AFF or FAS system. No special encrypting disks required.

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